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20% of Americans support boycott of firms aligning themselves with Trump agenda (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Summary

A Harris Poll revealed that 20% of Americans support boycotting companies aligning with Trump’s agenda, including major brands like Amazon, Target, and Tesla.

Boycotts are driven by dissatisfaction with companies rolling back diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, with 46% citing DEI rollbacks as a reason.

Support for boycotts is stronger among younger, non-white, and Democratic demographics. Some boycotts, like the “Latino Freeze Movement” and religiously motivated Target boycotts, are coordinated within communities.

Companies cite legal pressures for DEI changes, while critics view it as a moral compromise.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So, reality check: in large parts of the US, particularly outside of major metro areas, there’s one (1) big store in reasonable distance. And sometimes it’s a “big” Dollar General, which means the community is dying, because that chain is a fucking vampire (Their model is to charge a a smaller amount of money for far less of whatever product they’re selling, so it ends up being wildly more expensive per unit volume. This almost always kills all the other stores in the area, because when everyone’s extremely poor and often not fantastically educated, they see cheaper and think “I spend less money” instead of accounting for the per-unit/volume pricing. So it’s a chain intentionally set up to make uncritical people think they’re saving money, but they’re actually being taken to the cleaners every single time they walk in).

Not making excuses for people who don’t give a shit - just pointing out that there are a LOT of places in the US where there literally isn’t any choice in the store you get your general household goods at.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Big reason behind how Walmart destroys communities. All the mom&pop stores can't compete and start going out of business. They either have to move or work at Walmart. Walmart pays shit so even if you wanted to you can't afford any remaining mom&pop. Then once you can't even buy at Walmart or try and fight for better pay and conditions, they just fucking leave and everyone is out of work and there's no stores to take on employees or customers.